The Brussels talks are aimed at offering Turkey closer ties with the EU in return for help in stemming the flow of refugees to EU states from the country.

The EU hopes that Turkey will spend about EUR billion of EU money making conditions for the approximately 2.3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey better, so that they do not continue to leave for Greek islands, and then travel on to other EU countries.

Poland's position is described by analysts as awkward as the new cinservative Law and Justice government has indicated that it is against taking in any refugees, regardless of whether they are already in the EU (almost 1 million arrived this year).

The last Polish government, led by centrist party Civic Platform, had pledged to take in at least 7,000 refugees.